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Greatest debut album

Mostly listening to rock music from the 60s and 70s, thus I am asking a biased question. My greatest debut album is From Genesis to Revelation by Genesis.  I understand there were production issues in the making of the album but Gabriel's voice is astonishing on this LP.   I wish I could find a live version of Into the Wilderness but can not. Any help in that would be appreciated.  Look forward to hearing others opinions for selfish reasons as I want to grow my collection and appreciate the opinions represented here. 
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Well, yeah simao. What would you expect? That’s who audiophiles are.
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Regarding The Beatles: Americans tend to consider Meet The Beatles their debut album, but it actually isn’t. In March of 1963 EMI released their true debut, Please Please Me, in England, but Capitol (EMI’s U. S. equivalent) passed on the album. Vee Jay Records obtained the rights to the album, changed the title to Introducing The Beatles, and released it in January of ’64, the same month Capitol released Meet The Beatles. By then Capitol had seen the light (or smelled the money ;-) .

Meet The Beatles is unquestionably, in historical terms, THE "debut" album of my lifetime (said as a U.S.A. resident). It sounds like what we consider the early Beatles sound: Merseybeat. Please Please Me/Introducing The Beatles doesn’t. It contains covers of a lot of U.S. Girl Group, R & B, and Show Tunes (a favorite of Paul McCartney), and not particularly well done, imo.

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Bellybutton by Jellyfish is a mighty amazing debut. They were incredible live too.
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@tostadosunidos, yup Jack was the most interesting thing about The Airplane, just as John Entwistle was in The Who. But then, I love the bass. James Jamerson is about my favorite musician; he, Ry Cooder, and Levon Helm. What a trio that would have been!
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@tostadosunidos, the bassist in my 1971 band loved Jack Cassidy (and Rick Danko, and Phil Lesh) and the sound he got, so bought himself the same Guild bass Jack played at the time. He was disappointed and frustrated that it sounded nothing like Jack's, and soon learned it was because Jack had replaced the stock flat wound strings with round wound. Expensive lesson! Jack is a very interesting bassist.
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Speaking of Disraeli Gears, have you heard the story Eric Clapton tells about it? Cream were signed to Atco by Ahmet Ertegun, founder/owner/President of Atlantic Records. Ahmet was a Blues and Jazz lover, and was of course pretty pleased with how Fresh Cream turned out, and sold. Clapton says when Ahmet heard the DG recordings, he dismissed the album as "Psychedelic horsesh*t". I couldn't have said it better myself. He released the album anyway, and it sold quite well. About six months after that album was released, George Harrison played The Band's Music From Big Pink album for Eric, and he saw the error of his ways ;-) .
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@slaw, I beat you to The Traveling Wilburys! I left off the Little Village album (weak material imo. But they were one of the best live bands I've ever seen & heard. Ry Cooder is God ;-), but could have and should have listed that band's true debut album, John Hiatt's Bring The Family. Fantastic!
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Another contender is the debut by Moby Grape. And Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Iris Dement, Lou Ann Barton, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Dave Edmunds, Rockpile (their sole album under that name), The Traveling Wilburys, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Blasters, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Los Lobos, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Steve Earle, The Dwight Twilley Band, and can’t leave out the first Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, and album like no other (except their others ;-) .
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I am not alone in considering Music From Big Pink by The Band the winner of that award. Others who concur are George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Al Kooper.
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